For instance, being a friend, co-worker, father, mother or a citizen, are all roles a person may possess. ... As Macbeth says, "For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;/ For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered" (3.1.70-71) he realizes the potential threats he has of his powers and makes a decision himself to kill Banquo. ... However, Macbeths and Banquo's friendship completely ends as Macbeth plots to kill his own friend. ... As a result, Macbeth convinces himself that since Banquo is his enemy he must be killed, which shows that Macbeth has become a heartless and gree...

• Word Count: 1077
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: High School

While Antigone is not portrayed as the radical, polar opposite of a stereotypical tender, loving woman, she still possesses the stable heroic qualities that differentiate her from the fragility of a tender, loving woman. ... She arranges how King Duncan will be killed, how his guards will be distracted, and how even the knives used will be from the guards. ... Though she does not kill King Duncan in the end, it is her ability to employ sinister, evil thoughts for her fell purpose without succumbing to horror, guilt, and regret that differentiates her from the stereotypical acquiescent woman....

• Word Count: 1748
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However in reality this is just an act, and in fact her true self possesses no such traits. ... She makes the example that it is unmanly to go back on promises which she claims Macbeth has made to kill King Duncan. She says if she were the mother of a baby, she would have the "nipple pluck"d from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out" had she made a promise to do so. ... "Laying the daggers ready" is all she can manage, even though she claims "had he not looked like my father as he slept, I had done't." ... The witch's prophesised that Banquo's son would be the next ruler,...

• Word Count: 1636
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the play, Hamlet returns to Denmark after hearing of his father's death only to find his mother already remarried to Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. ... In this play, Claudius not only kills Hamlet's father, but also guilts Hamlet's girlfriend Ophelia into trying to drive Hamlet even deeper into madness. ... The one thing that each of these plays written by Shakespeare possess is a villain motivated by greed to do unspeakable evil acts. ...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School